US election 2024: How Trump threatens to turn back the tide on America's environmental laws and climate progress

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Another Trump term in the White House poses a threat to the planet's future, write University of Oxford's Stephen Lezak, and Barbara Haya at the University of California, Berkeley

The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used to catch fire every decade or so. It started in the 1860s, when the river became choked with industrial waste, and the conflagrations...

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